RE: " animal burial "

["Neil, David M" <neildm@ID.DOE.GOV>]

This is accepted as more than a possibility; the current assumption is that

it is the cause.  Links of this sort have been demonstrated in several

similar studies: a spongiform encephalopathy of minks, shown to come from

feeding them scrapie-infected sheep: kuru among New Guinea tribes, who

consumed their dead; etc.



This is the reason the practice has been outlawed for food animals in

several countries, and a herd of cattle in Texas will probably be destroyed

simply because they were fed supplements contaminated with ungulate protein.



The real scary part is that. because prions are non-living, they are not

inactivated by sterilization techniques.



Dave Neil    neildm@id.doe.gov

I fed some lemon to my cat and now I have a sour puss.



> -----Original Message-----

> From: MacLellan, Jay A [SMTP:jay.a.maclellan@PNL.GOV]

> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:01 PM

> To:   radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:      FW: " animal burial "

> 

> My wife was talking with a man, who happens to be a butcher, who believes

> mad

> cow disease is a result of the practice of feeding recycled processing

> waste to

> animals (cannibalism).  Does anyone know if this is an accepted

> possibility?

> Jay MacLellan

> jay.a.maclellan@pnl.gov

> 

> 

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